The lexicon in the discourse of public figures of Kazakhstan and Russia

Abstract

The article describes the discourse of contemporary public figures of Kazakhstan and Russia. It presents a brief review of the scientific literature on the basic terms: official-business style, discourse, and others. The pur pose of the article is to observe the process of interpenetration of official business and journalistic styles and to identify the peculiarities of the offi cial business language in the discourse of public figure at the present stage. In order to illustrate the basic provisions that presented in this article, are involved the materials of interviews with prominent Russian and Kazakh leaders – Malyi Aleksey and Abenov Murat. When analyzing the lexical level of public figures discourse as a basis was taken L.G. Samotik’s clas sification. The observations allowed the author to identify the features of the functioning of the official business language in journalistic style. This made it possible to assert that the interpenetration of official-business and journalistic styles.